Tbf even if bae produced the scrap the Mod would ask for it to be diversity compliant and
Made of non magnetic or ferrous steel
Half way through te build
the treasury would decide to pay for it a 10 years etc

I'm waiting for, 'Of course, if BAE produced the scrap it'd be over-specced, not work, cost millions more than any other scrap, and be 10 years late.'

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Oddly enough the BAe scrap is such high end quality the scrap value far outweighs the normal stuff. When I worked there we did a stock audit in the raw material stores and one off cut of titanium sheet had a scrap value of over £4k.

Oddly enough the BAe scrap is such high end quality the scrap value far outweighs the normal stuff. When I worked there we did a stock audit in the raw material stores and one off cut of titanium sheet had a scrap value of over £4k.

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Ooh, then there's the Daily Hate headline: "Scandal as BAE Systems throws £4k of tax-payer's money in the bin in just one careless act".

TBH because of the size of it and the fact it had passed it's use by date, yes there is a use by date on certain metals, it was no further use for production.

The reason I remember it so well was because someone was caught by security trying to smuggle it out of the factory. The excuse he gave was that he was going to use it to replace his coal fire-back. if he'd managed it it would have been the most expensive fire-back in history.

Then of course there was the case of the Harrier engine that walked......

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My old man was a scrap metal merchant and I remember going to work with him as a kid in the 80s. It was great, rummaging through all the different boxes of medals, winners cups, old cut up weapon parts, brass shell casings and loads of old Naval scrap from Portsmouth Dockyard.